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EU migrants will be treated the same for immigration purposes after Brexit as migrants from elsewhere in the world, according to a new UK immigration strategy outlined by the prime minister, Theresa May. But she has admitted that any free trade deal struck between the UK and EU after Brexit could include special provisions on the mobility of people. Ultimately, migration could be included in a section of any new trade deal between the UK and the EU. This is something the Migration Advisory Committee noted in a wide-ranging report on EU migration to the UK, published in September. Most trade today takes place under the governance of regional and bilateral free trade agreements between two countries, or groups of countries. Increasingly this covers provisions on services as well as the movement of goods – and it can also include special rules on immigration too. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) supports different means for the liberalisation of services, based on its General … [Read more...] about How special migration rules in free trade deals work

Fanatical Brexiteers are bound to be disappointed. The European Union and the United Kingdom are so deeply interdependent that a real divorce is, in practice, impossible. Forget “taking back control.” What the U.K. is almost certain to end up with is an especially close “association agreement” — a legal arrangement used for countries that aren’t part of the EU but still want to cooperate closely with the bloc. This is good news. Both for the the U.K., which desperately needs to avoid a no-deal Brexit, and for the EU. If there’s one positive thing to have come out of the Brexit turmoil, it’s that it has highlighted an obvious fact: There should be a way to be affiliated with Europe and part of the European institutions without being a full member of the EU. Why? That would allow the core of the EU — its original members and anyone who wants to cooperate more closely — to move toward the more integrated, federalist Europe that … [Read more...] about Britain’s best hope: A federal EU

JACOB Rees-Mogg has written to Tory activists encouraging them to ditch Theresa May’s soft Brexit plan and quit the EU without a deal. The ringleader of the Tory Eurosceptics has sent a letter to local Conservative Association chairs, along with MPs, urging them not to support the Prime Minister’s Chequers compromise. In the missive, written as chair of the European Research Group of Tories, he tears up her proposals, and says they “would shackle us to the EU forever”. The website BrexitCentral has a copy of the full text, which says of Mrs May’s plan: “We would be out of Europe yet still run by Europe. “This is why the Prime Minister should ‘chuck Chequers’ and instead seek a Canada-style free trade agreement with the EU to make the most of the global opportunities that lie ahead.” Mr Rees-Mogg has been a strong critic of the PM’s white paper on Brexit, calling it an "unfortunate U-turn" on her original promises. … [Read more...] about Jacob Rees-Mogg writes to Tory activists encouraging them to ditch Theresa May’s soft Brexit plan and quit the EU with no deal

Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg tells PM to ‘chuck Chequers’ agreement BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Theresa May to “chuck Chequers” and “believe in Britain” in a letter to grassroots Conservatives. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/brexiteer-jacob-reesmogg-tells-pm-to-chuck-chequers-agreement-37242911.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/article37242908.ece/5de78/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_77fe54c9-f335-4974-a10f-4f87e8d3756a_1 Email Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg has urged Theresa May to “chuck Chequers” and “believe in Britain” in a letter to grassroots Conservatives. The backbench Tory and 60 colleagues have signed the letter, which describes the Prime Minister’s Brexit Chequers compromise as the “wrong deal for Britain”. It states the UK “does not need to do a deal with the EU”, but the bloc “needs to do a deal with us at all costs”. In the … [Read more...] about Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg tells PM to ‘chuck Chequers’ agreement

The prime minister intensely dislikes the phrase "soft Brexit". But there can be no denying the hard approach with her cabinet to softening her own Brexit plan and red lines, in pursuit of a deal that can pass parliament. This is the logic of the commons maths asserting themselves through Number 10.In the end there was nowhere to go for the cabinet Brexiteers.By that I mean, there was literally nowhere to go, because Number 10 had taken their phones and immediate use of their ministerial cars should they resign.In the middle of the Buckinghamshire countryside, such things can help focus minds.:: PM and cabinet agree new UK-EU free trade areaThe PM and her team have pulled off an impressive feat.The cabinet is now united behind a position that can win the acceptance of Parliament and the business community.As her Chief Whip Julian Smith commented (he seemed to be quickly reunited with his phone): "Cabinet unity for the next stage of Brexit." More than that, as was made clear in an … [Read more...] about Chequers mate? Brexiteers rely on EU rejecting PM’s ‘win’